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IN the article which appeared in NATURE of August 23, 1917 (vol. xcix., p. 507), upon the above subject, it was pointed out that, as popularly used at all events, the expression “Isle of Wight disease” connotes not so much a disease as a group of diseases, due to different organisms. The cause of this misuse,of the term is the inability of the honey-bee to express otherwise than by certain simple means the changes wrought on its system by the introduction of various parasites or poisons. The symptoms which are noticed by lay observers, when bees are suffering from any severe attack, are hastily assumed to be characteristic of “Isle of Wight disease,” and the appearance of such symptoms in another colony is considered sufficient evidence that the same disease is present.
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Bee Disease . Nature 101, 47–48 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101047a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/101047a0